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  <h2>Problems of the Educational System</h2>
  
  <p>In this section I will identify some major problems of educational systems that the use of computers may help to solve. Here I will just mention the following points:</p>

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    <li>Increasingly, competitiveness in international markets is based more and more on the educational level of human resources, and much less on raw materials.</li>
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    <li>Automation of industrial and commercial processes has generated a migration of personnel towards more intellectually demanding tasks.</li>
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    <li>Present educational systems, and not only in developing countries but also in the U.S., are not providing graduates at the levels required by the productive systems. The best sources for this assessment come from the United States. “Adult Literacy in America”, a 1994-survey issued by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), reported that roughly 90 million Americans over age 16 - almost half that category’s total population - are, as far as most workplaces are concerned, basically unfit for employment. That this state of affairs was approaching was already predicted ten years before in a report, issued by a presidential commission, under the suggestive title: “A Nation at Risk”.</li>
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    <li>In realistic terms, we have to assume that the output of the average educational system in developing countries is even lower than in the U.S. Theconsideration that a higher percentage of the population in developing countries works in the agricultural sector does not alleviate the problem, because today’s agriculture, to be competitive in international markets, requires the usage of sophisticated methods and technology. This, again, requires a much better-educated farmer.</li>
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    <li>I believe that the main reason for the failure of educational systems is that the individual needs of each student to sustain a successful learning process are essentially ignored in traditional classroom practice.</li>
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    <li>Educational systems are resistant to change, and a transformation that purports to accelerate the solution of the problems just stated requires the support of educational technology.</li>
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    <h2>System conception | Developing-countries problems</h2>
    
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    <li>Overpopulated classes, often reaching beyond
fifty students per class.</li>
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    <li>Schools lack appropriate infrastructure, particularly
in rural areas. Substandard classrooms, black
of telephones, electricity, or lavatories.</li>
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    <li>Very low teacher salaries, producing a flight of the
higher intellectual levels to better-paid professions.</li>
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    <li>Non-professional teachers are used to teach subjects
      where a credentialed teacher is not available.</li>
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  <p>Lets take a look at a solutions which applicable to above problems in next section  <a href="./subsolution.html">Computer Uses in Education and their Benefits</a>  </p>

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